§ MR. R. DUNCAN (Lanarkshire, Govan)To ask the Secretary for Scotland if firms will be excluded from tendering for the new cruiser for the Fishery Board unless they are both shipbuilders and engineers; and, if so, is there any reason why firms of approved standing in these lines of manufacture should not tender conjointly, as is the usual practice in the case of the mercantile marine.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) I am informed that the Fishery Board's past experience leads them to the conclusion that for their special purpose tenders should be invited only from firms capable of themselves undertaking the whole work of construction.